Steve Jobs died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 56. Founding NeXT would have been enough to turn anyone into a cult hero in his field. Acquiring Lucasfilm’s Graphics Group and turning it into Pixar would have made anyone a respected business leader. But for Steve Jobs, those were feathers in his cap called Apple, the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak, | Read More »

Steve Jobs died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 56. Founding NeXT would have been enough to turn anyone into a cult hero in his field. Acquiring Lucasfilm’s Graphics Group and turning it into Pixar would have made anyone a respected business leader. But for Steve Jobs, those were feathers in his cap called Apple, the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak, | Read More »

President Obama has said a lot of ridiculous crap over the past… oh hell, he’s always saying ridiculous crap. He’s like Joe Biden except less hilarious and more dangerous. This past weekend, giving a commencement address at Hampton University, he said the following: “You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all | Read More »

From his speech at Hampton University, Obama tells us the the modern day media (a.k.a. anything outside the liberal media) “…bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank all that high on the truth meter…”. Hey, at least he is admitting how much coverage the White House receives. Talk about reporters needing | Read More »

From his speech at Hampton University, Obama tells us the the modern day media (a.k.a. anything outside the liberal media) “…bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank all that high on the truth meter…”. Hey, at least he is admitting how much coverage the White House receives. Talk about reporters needing | Read More »

(Via Hot Air Headlines) A very interesting discussion here and here about whether President Obama’s gift of an iPod with preloaded MP3s to the Queen of England is, in point of fact, legal under current copyright law. Short version: yes, but only because of diplomatic immunity on the one hand and sovereign immunity on the other. If we were talking about two private individuals… nobody | Read More »

I read a very interesting article in the WSJ today describing the former captors of John McCain and their support for his assent to the presidency. He fought the Vietnamese up front and personal from a cell. He suffered physically and mentally at the hands of the then enemy but was an early supporter of normalization with our former foes. McCain played a crucial role | Read More »